The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 34
He made the wise man swear not to tell the matter to anyone, gave him a splendid robe, and dismissed him.
Who acts: Selim, wise man · What happens: make, swear, not tell, give, dismiss · To what, where: wise man, matter, splendid robe, Selim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Selim, wise man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 swear | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 anyone | case |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 tell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 robe | det |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 robe | amod |
| 19 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dismissed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dismissed | cc |
| 22 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dismissed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Selim | the wise man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear | infinitive | the wise man not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the wise man not said here | the matter | to anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 4 | give | past | Selim not said here | a splendid robe | Selim | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient robe=Theme | |||
| 5 | dismiss | past | Selim not said here | Selim | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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